Activision-Blizzard’s long-awaited Overwatch 2 has not had the perfect of launches because of an unrelenting DDoS assault on the corporate’s servers and a few gamers of the unique Overwatch recreation’s content material has not been transferred over but. The corporate has mentioned in a message that “no participant knowledge has been wiped or misplaced” so you may relaxation assured your progress and unlocks from the unique recreation will ultimately switch over. Blizzard additionally mentioned that anybody who has performed the unique Overwatch since ninth June, 2021 won’t have to supply a cellphone quantity to play from tomorrow, seventh October. The request of a cellphone quantity was acknowledged as a method to cease and wipeout participant dishonest or abuse. Right here’s a roundup of what’s been mentioned by the Overwatch 2 improvement crew.
SMS Defend
- Blizzard has eliminated cellphone quantity necessities for a majority of present Overwatch gamers.
- Any Overwatch participant with a related Battle.web account, which incorporates all gamers who’ve performed since June 9, 2021, won’t have to supply a cellphone quantity to play.
- Blizzard expects this variation to go reside on Friday, October 7 and can replace gamers as soon as it’s in impact.
Queue Occasions and Connectivity Points
- Blizzard is engaged on patching servers to enhance stability and improve login reliability. They’ve addressed some points and are within the technique of addressing others, however gamers ought to nonetheless count on to see queues within the short-term.
- Way more detailed info on the discussion board publish.
Lacking Participant Objects/Knowledge
- Roughly half of reported Lacking Merchandise instances are a results of gamers having not but accomplished their account merge, directions for that are right here. Within the different half of reported instances for this problem, issues are simply taking longer than anticipated for gadgets from the unique Overwatch to switch and populate in Overwatch 2.
- Blizzard is exploring a number of fixes on this, additional detailed within the discussion board publish.
- Nonetheless, most significantly, in all instances, no participant knowledge has been wiped or misplaced.
Incorrectly Locked Heroes and Objects for Current Gamers
- Relogging into the sport will resolve this problem most often.
DDoS Assaults
- On the day of launch, the above points had been exacerbated by DDoS assaults—whereas they didn’t immediately trigger any of those points, they made the working atmosphere to resolve these points tougher.
- Blizzard has not suffered any additional assaults.
Supply: Blizzard